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Board Member, Woodridge School District 68 | School/Bulk Order Manager, The Silver Unicorn Bookstore 🦄 | Co-founder, LITapalooza | Books in kids’ hands always and forever. ❤️📚
Two weeks into the war that he started for reasons he can’t explain, the president of the United States is threatening to charge news outlets with treason for purportedly colluding with the enemy by producing coverage he dislikes. bsky.app/profile/atru...
I don't want to be controversial here, but I think Ryan Coogler is incredibly talented.
Explain propaganda to me like I’m 5 years old.
David Byrne on AI:
"AI is basically sucking up all human knowledge and throwing it back at us and charging a price"
#ilwx - big hailstorm headed to down town Chicago. In my 30+ years of living in the western suburbs, I’ve never seen hail this big.
… and start listening to Black women.
2 years from now, 5 years from now, 10 years from now, and 20 years from now, Americans are going to be subject to attacks here and all over the world because of what Trump is doing right now.
New YouGov poll finds that for the first time, a majority of Americans disapprove of Trump *strongly.* His overall approval is down to 38%, a new second-term low.
When is the last time a majority has disapproved strongly of a president?
Fake war footage isn't new, but AI has def supercharged it. For a few years now, the same three clips from ARMA 3 circulate every time there's a war. Even Pakistan has shared this on official accounts.
Absolutely honoured to say that Waterstones has picked Hekate as book of the month. Verse novels and poets do not normally get this kind of love, so I am BEYOND grateful for this. 🥹🖤
I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party.
We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...
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A nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Here's what you need to know about HR7661, including who is behind it, the history behind such bills, and what you need to do to stop it.
bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...
Which is more important to you?
Allowing Pete Hegseth to use AI however he wants?
Or preventing AI from doing mass surveillance of Americans and creating lethal weapons without human oversight?
That’s the choice before us. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/pete-hegseth-and-the-ai-doomsday
This is the FBI 302 in which a woman recounts her accusation that Epstein lulled her with the promise of a babysitting job only to drug and rape her. She says he tried to get her to recruit other girls her age. (She was 13 or 14).
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in ’s own house.
There’s just a culture of learned helplessness when it comes to democratic communication. A total disinterest in talking about issues as a way to spark media coverage framed in the party’s narrative.
The spouse of Trump's Sec of Labor (who is under investigation for having a sexual relationship with an employee and spending taxpayer funds on strip clubs) has been banned from visiting her office on account of alleged sexual misconduct. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...
Homan: "We don't racially profile.”
Reality: It’s all ICE does.
(From @atrupar.com )
"...The 74 revealed that police nationwide routinely tapped into school district Flock cameras to assist President Donald Trump’s mass immigration crackdown, which has also led to public outcry and protest over the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s unprecedented surveillance tactics."
You thought your unvaccinated daughter had a cold. It could be a week before she's diagnosed with measles. By then, the virus “has multiplied and descended upon her lungs, kidneys, tonsils, and spleen, down to the marrow of her bones.” Elizabeth Bruenig writes about how a child dies of measles:
It kinda seems like if you use ai in your job you’re just training ai to do your job
@alsobrooks.senate.gov speaks to Rolling Stone about RFK Jr.
“His leadership has been absolutely disastrous, and it has almost single-handedly worked to dismantle the public health system in our country and many of the gains that we’ve made in research, science, and medicine.”
First @teslatakedown.com, now #targettakedown ✊
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs.
His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
(Published Feb. 2023)
It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.
Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵:
-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc
Yep. Midterm elections.